Bigger Mistake, Bigger Discovery!

It was 5:28 in the morning yesterday when I got the reason why I failed to make chiffon cake once in a while.

I was very  excited and almost shouted "I got it!"   Instead of shouting, I took the picture above.

This year, I already made 11 whole cakes, and two were failures. They were good tastes but the failures were they didn't rise as tall as I expected.   I didn't know what was wrong. 

But when  I was making dough yesterday, I made a huge mistake which made me found the reason of the possible failure.

So I guessed this cake was absolutely failure before baking.

Fortunately or unfortunately,  my guess was right.  It didn't rise.  I was planning to give it to the family who was going to be gathered here for the memorial service, but I couldn't give it to them. 

In Buddhism, there is a saying, "Daigi-Taigo, Shogi-shogo, Fugi-fugo（大疑大悟、小疑小悟、不疑不悟）" which literally means "Bigger doubt, bigger enlightenment.    Smaller doubt, smaller enlightenment.   Without doubt, no enlightenment. 

After experiencing a big failure, I have understood this saying as follows.

"If you made a big mistake, you'd get a chance of big discovery.  If you made a small mistake, your discovery may be smaller.  But without making mistakes, you cannot get discovery."

While eating this failure cake,  I now have an another discovery.

This must be the reason why I am gainning weight!